If you could design your own nail polish, what color would it be? What kind of finish?
I think I’d probably make it a medium-dark fuchsia-pink with black and gold micro-glitter. It’d be sexy and shimmery and smart!
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Light pink with silver/ white duo chrome finish
sounds like mac “swish”. it’s an old color but very pretty
But… Isn’t that an eye shadow?
good to know!
I have something like that! It’s called Milan by boots!!
as weird as it sounds, among many other colors i’d love to create.. a gray! just a plain gray with no holographic in it, and not silver. just a creme gray!
i’ve looked everywhere, and i have yet to see one!
Have you seen China Glaze Recycle or Rescue Beauty Lounge Concrete Jungle?
If I made a nail polish it would be a teal blue with royal blue star glitter or a dusty blue-grey with pink and silver microglitter.
revlon has one its called silver and it is so not silver it is the perfect matte grey that i have ever encountered
Try Deborah Lippman’s Waking Up in Vegas, it looks like a perfect dove gray! Or Zoya just came out with a gorgeous darker gray-Christine reviewed it earlier this week!
Thanks Karen & Leslie! I’ll be sure to check those out!
What about China Glaze Recycle?
Try Essie Chinchilly
Mac HK “on the prowl” is a beautiful grey without shimmer
sally hansen hard as nails xtreme wear in wet cement.
Probably a medium pink with a purple duo chrome.
Mine would be a neutral/nude light beige color that you could wear every day, but it would have a holographic finish. 😀 Simple, but still fun.
Butter London’s All Hail McQueen!!!!
:O Thank you! I will definitely look that up!
sounds like All Hail McQueen by butter london! Lovely idea 🙂
glow in the dark purple sparkley nail polish
OMG that sounds WONDERFUL!
john deere green, cream finish.
medium red toned purple, with a cream finish.
teal & pink glitter reflects 🙂
Hm.. Maybe a pearly white color with mint green and baby pink pearl/shimmer? 🙂
a bluer version of nouvelle vague. it’s almost perfect… just a little too green for me.
I would want it to be something that I have never seen before. Maybe a very deep raspberry with flecks of teal, pink and orange glitter or shimmer. My fave colour palette on my nails.
Sounds fun ! I would wear it
I would so wear that! 😀
slightly darker than true green jelly with a pink duo-chrome with puple and teal tiny glitter. amazing 😀
the perfect baby pink!
It would probably be impossible, but the perfect shade of non-streaky minty blue with hot pink glitter!
Green with red glitter, pink with red glitter, orange with black glitter, vice versa! Holiday polishes 🙂
i really can’t think of anything better than the taupe colour that most of us loved this year but if i would design my own colour it would be a a shiny bright pink with gold shimmer(but not too shimmery)
light grey with teal micro glitter.
I <3 micro glitter (so I'd buy yours, too!)
Mid-purple (similar to the “share and follow” icons on Temptalia posts!) with teal/peacock blue reflects
Yellow with pink sparkles
A taupe colour with pistachio green micro glitter. Just because I’d like to see how it would look hahaha
Otherwise, a blue grey cream, but THE perfect blue grey. With the right balance of blue and grey and not too dark nor too light.
The perfect coral-peach with a cream finish. Like a peach sorbet – not too yellow, not too pink, not too foundationey, not too fluoro.
Also, mixing reflects glitters into nail polishes is a fab way to up the glitter (but be careful! Too much glitter and it sets the lacquer into a thick gunky paste!)
an earthy green or blue color 🙂
I would love to have a nail polish of the exact Ford Mustang Cobra “mystichrome” formula. It’s that beautiful green/teal/blue/purple color that only came straight from the factory on a certain year. People try to recrate the look but it always comes out more pink. I would love to combine two of my favorite passions (make up && ford mustangs). So that is the color I’d love to make 🙂
Hot pink with black glitter. I looove crazy nail colors andI also LOVE glitter!
a greige color with a hint of lavender
I love metro chic but I feel that it’s too dark and not enough beige or mauve colors in it
For me it’s essie chinhilly!
I would create a dark wine color, with burgundy and gold micro glitter.
A color that was peachy like Peachy Keen from China Glaze but had a pink and gold shimmer/duo chrome to it. And then also a red that had a deep black pearl
A robin’s egg blue with a cream finish!
A medium purple with LOTS of glitter and shimmer. Probably purple too with silver 🙂
A smooth, buttery, one-coat, shimmer/holographic multichrome that flashes every color of the rainbow. I guess the closest living-ish relative would be Clarins 230 (damn HTF discontinued sunnuva polishes), although it’s definitely not a one-coater or holographic and more purple/red than blue/green.
Red-turquoise duochrome with fine glitter.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3417/4559950653_0b5238654e.jpg exactly this colour, and just slightly transparent and very very shiny so it would look a bit like glass on the nails.
Greige!!! I am dying to find a greyish beige with a hint of pink
A gunmetal with chunks of green/gold diamond shaped with glow in the dark and champagne blue shimmers.
either a teal-ish shade with a hint of gold shimmer, or a shade that resembles stars n rockets
A medium shimmery gray-blue (more blue than gray) with purple duochrome.
Something like OPI My Private Jet-black with holo, but with a more linear holo design such as GOSH Holographic or Chanel Holographic. Not as scattered as MPJ. My goddess that would be so pretty!
A purple/lavender version of Essie’s Mademoiselle. It’s one of my all time favorite colors but there doesn’t seem to be any sheer purples or lavenders out there.
I would definitely create a light pastel purple colour. Maybe have it a bit more complex and have some blue-green duochrome shimmer, too. Ouu, that’d be perfect!
A gray cement type color with pink and gold micro shimmer!!
I love blue so mine would be a sky blue one with orange shimmer : D